30 Jean LAMBERT-RUCKI (1888-1967) Theater scene,... Lot 30

30 Jean LAMBERT-RUCKI (1888-1967) Theater scene, circa 1937 Sanguine, charcoal and chalk on paper, unsigned. 128 x 71 cm on view Certificate of authenticity by Monsieur Jacques de Vos dated April 5, 2023 will be given to the purchaser. Provenance: Sale Maître Rion, 30/01/2016, lot 392. Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1888, Jean Lambert-Rucki's fellow student was the painter the painter Moïse Kisling, and in a shared destiny a common destiny, they both went to Paris the cause of France during the Great War. the Great War. After his contract with contract with Léonce Rosenberg in 1924, necessity necessity drove Lambert-Rucki to work to work for Jean Dunand, a major figure in Art deco, and it wasn't until the early 30s that the artist could devote himself to his personal work. A member of the Union des artistes modernes (U.A.M.), he produced, among others a large monumental bas-relief for the the Exposition Universelle in 1937, featuring of some thirty sculptures and more than twenty masks.